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William E. Kempf wrote:
> From: "Stefan Bodewig" <bodewig@apache.org>
>
>>On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, William E. Kempf <williamkempf@hotmail.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I installed ant 1.4.1 (I can't switch to 1.5 for compatibility
>>>reasons)
>>
>>which are? 1.5 should be backwards compatible.
>
>
> Issues with other tools... specifically WSAD.
Didn't have problem using Eclipse 2.0.1 with ant 1.5,
just updated the plugin ;)
>
>>>via the RPM distribution. There's little documentation about this
>>>form of distribution installation, unfortunately.
>>
>>The main reason for this is that the RPMs are contributed distribution
>>forms that don't have direct support by the Ant developers. I'm not
>>aware of any Ant committer who'd use the RPMs.
>
>
> Then why supply them on the Ant web site?
Because there is people who use it and at least one apache commiter who
spend some time packaging rpms.
But I feel that we'll use www.jpackage.org works (allready there).
> Don't get me wrong... I
> understand that there's reasons why developers would prefer not to use
> binary package installations... and in general I'd agree. But on a
> production server the admins feel better using an RPM which allows a uniform
> method of installing, uninstalling and tracking versions.
And that's exactly why I package rpm for many java apache projects.
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